The article, Prison Overcrowding and Disciplinary Problems: An Analysis of the Texas Prison System by Sheldon Ekland-olson, Dennis Barrick, and Lawrence Cohen looks at prison overcrowding along with disciplinary rates. They discuss how state and federal prisons have experienced rapid population growth and the failure of expanding facilities has caused overcrowding. This has caused strain to develop on the medical, education, recreational, vocational, and nutritional service aspect of the prison system local and nationwide. States have tried to remedy this overcrowding problem by convert unused spaces and additional buildings in and around prisons to little effect on the problem. Concerns over the effects of overcrowding are also discussed.
